Prof. Leonard Barroli

Leonard Barolli is a Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Information Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan. He completed his B.S. from Tirana University, Albania (1989), and his Ph.D. degree at Yamagata University, Japan (1997). He then worked as a Post Doctor Fellow Researcher of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Yamagata University and a Research Associate at the Department of Public Policy and Social Studies, at the same university. Before joining his current institute, he was an Assistant Professor at the Saitama Institute of Technology (SIT), Japan. His research interests include high-speed and broadband networks, mobile communication systems, mobile ad hoc networking, wireless sensor networks, P2P systems, VANETs, wireless sensor and actor networks, opportunistic networks, wireless mesh networks, software-defined networks, cloud computing, Web applications, the Quality of Service (QoS), traffic control mechanisms (policing, routing, congestion control, Connection Admission Control (CAC)), intelligent algorithms (fuzzy theory, genetic algorithms, neural networks, tabu search, simulated annealing, hill climbing, particle swarm optimization), hybrid intelligent systems, network protocols, agent-based systems, and grid and Internet computing.